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Explainable AI: A guide for making black box machine learning models explainable
In the future, AI will explain itself, and interpretability could boost machine intelligence research. Getting started with the basics is…
Business
Another globally distributed cloud native SQL database on the rise: Yugabyte Raises $30 million in Series B Funding
Your good old on-premise SQL database is in terminal decline. Being a pure-play open-source cloud-native…
Optimizing hardware infrastructure with data and AI: Granulate scores $12 million Series A funding
How does boosting hardware performance between 20% and 80% sound? This is what startup Granulate…
Technical
Superconductive scores $21M Series A funding to sustain growth of its Great Expectations open source framework for data quality
Ensuring data quality is essential for analytics, data science and machine learning. Superconductive’s Great Expectations…
It’s all about the data: Explorium’s bet pays off in $75M Series C funding
Data science and machine learning are being commoditized, so it’s the datasets that make the…
OtterTune sets out to auto tune all the databases
Tuning databases is key to application performance and stability, but it’s a hard job. Auto-tuning…
AI chip startup NeuReality introduces its NR1-P object-oriented hardware architecture
NeuReality targets deep learning inference workloads on the edge, aiming to reduce CAPEX and OPEX…
Graph-based data science, machine learning and AI. The Year of the Graph Newsletter Vol. 23, Spring 2021
What does graph have to do with machine learning, and data science? A lot, actually,…
Open source AI stack is ready for its moment
Open source stacks enabled software to eat the world. Now several innovative companies are working…
Socio-Technical
The wrong strategy, the wrong way: cold-calling your way to marketing, technical and business failure
Do you think cold-calling still works? Trying to sell random stuff to random people on…
Twitter doesn’t like me, but it’s nothing personal: stock plunges, engagement, and walled gardens
I’m a very late joiner on Twitter. Even though as an analyst being active on…
World Wide Web Conference 2012: From technical to socio-technical
Extending the reach and scope of the Web I just returned from this year’s edition…
Tim Berners Lee Keynote in World Wide Web Conference 2012
Distributed, Collaborative Decision Making? Music to my ears – we should be doing more of that…